Podcast Episodes

1. When Amy Met Joe

Season 11 Episode 2

The last thing mental health nurse Amy expected to encounter when she took a job at Lindholme prison was someone offering romance.

Then she met Joe - cheeky, brimming with charisma and a career crimin…

Published on 7 hours ago

Gangster Presents... Sex, Drugs & Cell Block Parties

Season 11 Episode 1

The story of the biggest prison smuggling plot ever busted in the UK - and the love story at the heart of it.

Journalist Amber Haque untangles what happens when mental health nurse Amy Hatfield meets…

Published on 4 days, 1 hour ago

The Black Widow: 6. Til Death Do Us Part

Season 10 Episode 7

Linda spends the next 18 years behind bars with some of the UK's most notorious female killers. She shares stories of a life inside, a shock prison wedding and returning back to reality and a life on…

Published on 2 months ago

The Black Widow: 5. Spilt Milk

Season 10 Episode 6

After being released from prison, Linda's living the quiet life catching up on lost time with her two kids.

Trouble soon finds her again as Ronnie Cook's sentence also comes to an end. When Linda brin…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Black Widow: 4. The Two Minute Rule

Season 10 Episode 5

A partial fingerprint at the scene of a violent robbery puts the flying squad on Linda's trail. While they watch, she continues to live the high life funding by a spate of terrifying armed raids.

A te…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Black Widow: 3. Cops and Robbers

Season 10 Episode 4

Linda discovers Ronnie's dark side as he lets slip a shocking secret about the day Mickey died.

She can't leave Ronnie, because he's too dangerous. But luckily for Linda, the police solve that problem…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Black Widow: 2. A Widow's Vow

Season 10 Episode 3

Linda, Mickey and the kids are living the high life when he agrees to take on a job with a new gang - a raid on a cash collection at a London supermarket just before Christmas.

As Linda waits at home,…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Black Widow: 1. Spinning the Web

Season 10 Episode 2

Linda Welford was raised in London's East End in the 1960s; a tight and tough community with a reputation for a thriving criminal underworld, ruled with an iron fist by gangsters like the Kray twins.…

Published on 3 months ago

Introducing Gangster: The Story of the Black Widow

Season 10 Episode 1

Livvy Haydock explores the extraordinary life of Linda Calvey, the woman they call "the Black Widow." She rose through the ranks of London’s criminal underworld to become the UK’s most notorious fema…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Daniels and the Lyons: 7. Update – Murder in Costa Del Sol

Season 8 Episode 8

Livvy Haydock examines the recent deaths of Eddie Lyons Jr. and Ross Monaghan, who were shot dead outside Monaghan’s Bar in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol, on 31 May 2025. Spanish police believe the…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago